From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>,
Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org,
peterz@infradead.org, boqun.feng@gmail.com, npiggin@gmail.com,
dhowells@redhat.com, Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>,
Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>,
akiyks@gmail.com, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>,
Daniel Lustig <dlustig@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC LKMM 1/7] tools/memory-model: Add extra ordering for locks and remove it for ordinary release/acquire
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 17:09:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180907160950.GH12788@arm.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20180907160950.Urd7nGaL1HJUPEVOe1LTZ4x9bwWDA1hxuwFDAEwyGiE@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1809071145260.1547-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 12:00:19PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2018, Andrea Parri wrote:
>
> > > Have you noticed any part of the generic code that relies on ordinary
> > > acquire-release (rather than atomic RMW acquire-release) in order to
> > > implement locking constructs?
> >
> > There are several places in code where the "lock-acquire" seems to be
> > provided by an atomic_cond_read_acquire/smp_cond_load_acquire: I have
> > mentioned one in qspinlock in this thread; qrwlock and mcs_spinlock
> > provide other examples (grep for the primitives...).
> >
> > As long as we don't consider these primitive as RMW (which would seem
> > odd...) or as acquire for which "most people expect strong ordering"
> > (see above), these provides other examples for the _gap_ I mentioned.
>
> Okay, now I understand your objection. It does appear that on RISC-V,
> if nowhere else, the current implementations of qspinlock, qrwlock,
> etc. will not provide "RCtso" ordering.
>
> The discussions surrounding this topic have been so lengthy and
> confusing that I have lost track of any comments Palmer or Daniel may
> have made concerning this potential problem.
>
> One possible resolution would be to define smp_cond_load_acquire()
> specially on RISC-V so that it provided the same ordering guarantees as
> RMW-acquire. (Plus adding a comment in the asm-generic/barrier.h
> pointing out the necessity for the stronger guarantee on all
> architectures.)
>
> Another would be to replace the usages of atomic/smp_cond_load_acquire
> in the locking constructs with a new function that would otherwise be
> the same but would provide the ordering guarantee we want.
>
> Do you think either of these would be an adequate fix?
I didn't think RISC-V used qspinlock or qrwlock, so I'm not sure there's
actually anything to fix, is there?
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-07 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 112+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-29 21:10 [PATCH RFC memory-model 0/7] Memory-model changes Paul E. McKenney
2018-08-29 21:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-08-29 21:10 ` [PATCH RFC LKMM 1/7] tools/memory-model: Add extra ordering for locks and remove it for ordinary release/acquire Paul E. McKenney
2018-08-29 21:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-08-30 12:50 ` Andrea Parri
2018-08-30 12:50 ` Andrea Parri
2018-08-30 21:31 ` Alan Stern
2018-08-30 21:31 ` Alan Stern
2018-08-31 9:17 ` Andrea Parri
2018-08-31 9:17 ` Andrea Parri
2018-08-31 14:52 ` Alan Stern
2018-08-31 14:52 ` Alan Stern
2018-08-31 16:06 ` Will Deacon
2018-08-31 16:06 ` Will Deacon
2018-08-31 18:28 ` Andrea Parri
2018-08-31 18:28 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-03 9:01 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-03 9:01 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-03 17:04 ` Will Deacon
2018-09-03 17:04 ` Will Deacon
2018-09-04 8:11 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-04 8:11 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-04 19:09 ` Alan Stern
2018-09-04 19:09 ` Alan Stern
2018-09-05 7:21 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-05 7:21 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-05 14:33 ` Akira Yokosawa
2018-09-05 14:33 ` Akira Yokosawa
2018-09-05 14:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-09-05 14:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-09-05 15:00 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-05 15:00 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-05 15:04 ` Akira Yokosawa
2018-09-05 15:04 ` Akira Yokosawa
2018-09-05 15:24 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-05 15:24 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-03 17:52 ` Alan Stern
2018-09-03 17:52 ` Alan Stern
2018-09-03 18:28 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-03 18:28 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-06 1:25 ` Alan Stern
2018-09-06 1:25 ` Alan Stern
2018-09-06 9:36 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-06 9:36 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-07 16:00 ` Alan Stern
2018-09-07 16:00 ` Alan Stern
2018-09-07 16:09 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2018-09-07 16:09 ` Will Deacon
2018-09-07 16:39 ` Daniel Lustig
2018-09-07 16:39 ` Daniel Lustig
2018-09-07 17:38 ` Alan Stern
2018-09-07 17:38 ` Alan Stern
2018-09-08 0:04 ` Daniel Lustig
2018-09-08 0:04 ` Daniel Lustig
2018-09-08 9:58 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-08 9:58 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-11 19:31 ` Alan Stern
2018-09-11 19:31 ` Alan Stern
2018-09-11 20:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-09-11 20:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-09-12 14:24 ` Alan Stern
2018-09-12 14:24 ` Alan Stern
2018-09-13 17:07 ` Alan Stern
2018-09-13 17:07 ` Alan Stern
2018-09-14 14:37 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-14 14:37 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-14 16:29 ` Alan Stern
2018-09-14 16:29 ` Alan Stern
2018-09-14 19:44 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-14 19:44 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-14 21:08 ` [PATCH v5] " Alan Stern
2018-09-14 21:08 ` Alan Stern
2018-09-15 3:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-09-15 3:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-09-03 17:05 ` [PATCH RFC LKMM 1/7] " Will Deacon
2018-09-03 17:05 ` Will Deacon
2018-08-31 17:55 ` Andrea Parri
2018-08-31 17:55 ` Andrea Parri
2018-08-29 21:10 ` [PATCH RFC LKMM 2/7] doc: Replace smp_cond_acquire() with smp_cond_load_acquire() Paul E. McKenney
2018-08-29 21:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-09-14 16:59 ` Will Deacon
2018-09-14 16:59 ` Will Deacon
2018-09-14 18:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-09-14 18:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-08-29 21:10 ` [PATCH RFC LKMM 3/7] EXP tools/memory-model: Add more LKMM limitations Paul E. McKenney
2018-08-29 21:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-08-30 9:17 ` Andrea Parri
2018-08-30 9:17 ` Andrea Parri
2018-08-30 22:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-08-30 22:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-08-31 9:43 ` Andrea Parri
2018-08-31 9:43 ` Andrea Parri
2018-09-06 18:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-09-06 18:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-08-29 21:10 ` [PATCH RFC LKMM 4/7] tools/memory-model: Fix a README typo Paul E. McKenney
2018-08-29 21:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-08-29 21:10 ` [PATCH RFC LKMM 5/7] EXP tools/memory-model: Add scripts to check github litmus tests Paul E. McKenney
2018-08-29 21:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-08-29 21:10 ` [PATCH RFC LKMM 6/7] EXP tools/memory-model: Make scripts take "-j" abbreviation for "--jobs" Paul E. McKenney
2018-08-29 21:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-08-29 21:10 ` [PATCH RFC LKMM 7/7] EXP tools/memory-model: Add .cfg and .cat files for s390 Paul E. McKenney
2018-08-29 21:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-08-31 16:06 ` Will Deacon
2018-08-31 16:06 ` Will Deacon
2018-09-01 17:08 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-09-01 17:08 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-09-14 16:36 ` [PATCH RFC memory-model 0/7] Memory-model changes Paul E. McKenney
2018-09-14 16:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-09-14 17:19 ` Alan Stern
2018-09-14 17:19 ` Alan Stern
2018-09-14 18:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-09-14 18:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20180907160950.GH12788@arm.com \
--to=will.deacon@arm.com \
--cc=akiyks@gmail.com \
--cc=andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com \
--cc=boqun.feng@gmail.com \
--cc=dhowells@redhat.com \
--cc=dlustig@nvidia.com \
--cc=j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk \
--cc=linux-arch@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=luc.maranget@inria.fr \
--cc=mingo@kernel.org \
--cc=npiggin@gmail.com \
--cc=palmer@sifive.com \
--cc=parri.andrea@gmail.com \
--cc=paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
--cc=peterz@infradead.org \
--cc=stern@rowland.harvard.edu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).